Non-refillable bottle.



J. D. LACROIX.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MR. 4. 1912.

1,169,498, Patented Jan. 25, 1916.

JOSEPH D. LACROIX, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND,

ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE ANGLO-AMER IUAN PATENT BOTTLE COMPANY LIMITED, OF

LONDON, ENGLAND.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 25;, 1916.

Application filed. March 4, 1912. Serial No. 681,403.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Josnrrr D. Laoiioix, a citizen of the United States, residing in Baltimore city and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in so-called non-refillable bottles.

The invention has reference to the valve and baffle mechanism thereof.

As to the former, the object of the present invention is to provide a valve mechanism which in certain respects will be more satisfactory in operation than prior valve mechanisms.

As to the latter, the object of the present invention is to provide an effective baffle mechanism which can bemore economically produced and combined with the bottle neck.

In the accompanying drawing-Figure 1 is a vertical sectional elevation of a bottle equipped with the present improvements in their preferred forms; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bottle; Figs. 3 and i are horizontal sections thereof on the lines 3, 4, respectively, of Fig. 1, and F 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but with the bottle in tilted or pouring position.

Referring to said drawing, 1 represents the bottle body and 2 a bottle neck secured thereto by a metal band 3, portions of which are spun into depressions in the neck 2, and a neck section 4 on the bottle body 1 in a manner which is now well known. In the commercial production of a separable bottle neck like neck 2, it has been usual to make it in two separably molded longitudinal sections, as shown and described in Patent No. 1,016,112, granted to Lacroix and Switzer- January 30, 1912. It was so made in order to provide for the stationary baffle mechanism in the bottle neck. l have discovered, however, that it may be made in a single molded piece or section, by molding a part, as the inwardly projecting flange 5,.integrallv with the bottle neck, and separately molding the balance of the baflie, as plug 6, which is then introduced into the bottle neck above the valve chamber, as shown. and cemented therein by means of suitable cementitious material or subsequent baking of the neck, the neck and this plug being pref portion,

case is generally of erably of porcelain. Accurate positioning of the plug 6 is insured by the-provision of lugs 7 depending from flange 5 which engage the upper edges or surface of the annular shoulder or flange of the plug as it is shoved into the bottle neck. The inner surface of the bottle neck, in line with and below the plug 6, is corrugated or ribbed vertically, as shown at 8, these ribs or corrugations providing liquid passages past the plug, the outer surface of which contacts with these corrugations or ribs, as shown. The plug 6 is provided with a post 9 crowned by a disk 10 extending upwardly beyond the flange 5, there being suflicient space between the flange and said post for the passage of liquid, while at the same time the post and its disk 10 occupy such a relation to the inner surface of the bottle neck and flange 5 as to effectually prevent the insertion, into the lower part of the bottle neck, of a wire or other valve-tampering implement. This is further provided against by the provision of a depression 11 in the upper face of the plug 6.

Coming now to the valve mechanism, the valve 12 is substantially the same as that shown and described in the aforesaid Lacroix and Switzer patent, being of cup shape conical form and resting at its lower edge on valve seat 13 so as to tilt freely thereon in itsopening and closing movements. The improvement in the present case as to the valve mechanism resides in the valvecontrolling weight 1%. Its lower end or major or weight proper, is, as will be observed, inclined slightly downwardly, and it has a contracted rounded upper portion or protuberance 15, fitting loosely in, and in operation coacting with, the sides of the socket 16, having preferably the same shape. This protuberance 15 is ribbed vertically to minimize the area of surface contact between it and the walls of recess 11. Socket 16 has, at its inner end or bottom, a rounded cavity 17 for receiving the upper end of protuberance 15 and on which the latter is to rock, as the bottle is tilted to and from pouring position. Although in construction and action the cam-like weight 14: of the present the same type as the weight of the aforesaid Lacroix and Switzer patent, it is, because of certain peculiarities in its construction, different in operation from and more satisfactory in actual comoccupies the position shown in mercial use than the latter. Normally it F ig. 1. As the bottle is tilted from that position toward a horizontal position, the weight 14: bears against the valve holding it closed until the bottle is tilted beyond the horizontal. At that instant the protuberance 15. coacting, at approximately its base, with the base of the socket 16, causes the weight let to tilt, at what is then its upper side, abruptly away from the valve, the valve-engaging portion of the weight, in so tilting moving radially outward from the center to what is then the upper side of the valve, which is then tilted open, as shown in Fig. 5. Tilting of the bottle beyond this position will result in bodily movement (limited by plug 6) of the weight 14: away from the valve seat, and consequent bodily movement of the valve so as to more fully open the passage between it and the valve seat. As the bottle is restored to upright position, the action of the weight is, of course, reversed. In this movement, as soon as the bottle reaches horizontal position, weight 14 tilts toward the valve engaging it first near what is then its'upper side and then moving radially inward toward its center, thus moving it, with a cam-like action, to its seat." In both operations it will be observed that the weight 14, through its protuberance 15 rocks or turns freely in the socket 16, and that in addition to such movement the weight has an abrupt tilting valveopening or valve-closing movement effected by the engagement of protuberance 15 with the base or lower edge of socket 16.

What is claimed is 1. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body having a neck-portion, a separate valve seat member arranged to rest on the body portion of the bottle, and a neck-portion having a rebate at its lower end within which the valve seat is recessed, and having a plurality of inward projecting arms at its upper portion below the mouth,

of a bafiie device arranged to be introduced from the lower end of the neck portion and to be secured with its upper surface in contact with the inward projecting arms, said bafiie device having an upward extending portion projecting into the upper neck portion of the bottle and provided with an outward extending flange, means for securing the neck portion to the botle and valve mechanism below the battle and arranged to close the valve seat'opening.

2. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body having a neck-portion, a valve seat member arranged to rest on the body port-ion of the bottle,'and a neckportion arranged to engage the valve seat, said neck-portion having a plurality of inward projecting arms at its upper portion and below its mouth, of a baffle device arranged to be introduced from the lower end of the neckportion and to be secured with its upper surface in contact with the inward projecting arms, said bafiie device having a socket in its lower face, a weight having an enlarged lower end with a convexly curved bottom and having a contracted cam-like projection at its upper end arranged to enter and rock in the socket, and a'valve arranged to rest on the valve seat and having an upwardly sloping periphery on which it may tilt against the inside of the neck-portion, the cam-like projection and socket being so constructed and arranged relative to each other that as the bottle is tilted said weight will rock freely in said socket and slidingly engage the valve in radial lines between the center of the valve and that side of the valve which is uppermost in the tilted position of the bottle, and also, at or'about the horizontal position of the bottle, will be abruptly tilted to or from the valve as the case may be.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH D. LACROIX.

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